A Nixa Elementary School is turning down the volume to help a student learn a new life-skill. Fifth graders at John Thomas School of Discovery (JTSD) are working as a team to learn sign language.

The lack of scientific terms and vocabulary in many of the world’s sign languages can make science education and research careers inaccessible for deaf people and those with hearing loss. Meet the ...

Syracuse, N.Y. -- When Heather Patrick was growing up, she knew she was different. At the age of 16, she was diagnosed with autism. She graduated from high school at 21, and went from one community ...

SUFFOLK, Va. (WAVY) – It is no secret that it is important to be inclusive, and students and staff at Nansemond Parkway Elementary School in Suffolk take inclusivity seriously. In Kari Maskelony’s ...

Not so long ago, deaf children were punished in the UK for using sign language in the classroom. Recounting his experience in the 1960s, one deaf person told one of my colleagues many years later: “I ...

For years, research into the best instructional approaches for students identified as English learners has pointed to the concept of translanguaging. Identified by bilingual education researcher ...

In a classroom in upstate New York, a special education teacher pulls up a set of Tobii eye-tracking devices, each calibrated ...

Marguerite Koole does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

According to the World Federation of the Deaf, there are approximately 72 million deaf people worldwide. More than 80% of them live in developing countries. Collectively, they use more than 300 ...

In new drama The Way We Talk, sign language is a tool for both communication and community. Hong Kong director Adam Wong's movie, which had its world premiere at last year's London Film Festival, ...

Earlier this week, classroom interpreters in the 42,000-student Clovis Unified in Fresno County filed a petition to join the Association of Clovis Educators (ACE), according to a media release the ...